Emily Morton-Owens, MSLIS

Web Services Librarian

Phone: (212) 263-8481
Email: emily.morton-owens@med.nyu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Emily Morton-Owens oversees the library's websites, including this main NYUHSL site, the Alumni Digital Library, the NYU Patient Library, and the Taterka Digital Ophthalmology Library. She chairs the library's Communication Team which directs the library's efforts to reach out to users, discover user needs, and promote library resources and services. As a member of the Mobile Taskforce, she is working to develop a strategy to offer resources and services on diverse mobile platforms, starting with a new mobile site.

Other commitments include her membership on the Dean's Committee for Women, MLA's Books Panel, and the Core Implementation Team for NYULMC's learning management system, iDevelop.

Emily has a BA in German Studies from Yale University, an MSLIS from Drexel University, and is working towards an MS in Computer Science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Her research interests include information architecture and editorial workflow for websites, usability of searching and browsing interfaces, and open-source software in libraries.

Publications

Morton-Owens, Emily G. Editorial and technological workflow tools to promote website quality. Information technology & libraries. 2011; 30(3):92-98.
Morton-Owens, Emily G; Hanson, Karen L; Walls, Ian. Implementing open-source software for three core library functions : a stage-by-stage comparison. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. 2011; 8(1):1-14.
Cuddy, Colleen; Graham, Jamie; Morton-Owens, Emily G. Implementing Twitter in a health sciences library. Medical reference service quarterly. 2010; 29(4):320-330.
Molanphy, Emily. "Beautiful Architecture" Spinellis, Diomids, and Georgios Gousios, eds. Sabastpol CA : O'Reilly, 2009 [Book Review]. Journal of web librarianship. 2010; 4(2):287-288.
Molanphy, Emily. A Review of "The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites" 2nd ed. van Duyne, Douglas K., James A. Landay, and Jason I. Hong. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007, 981 pp., $59.99, ISBN 9780131345553 [Book review]. Journal of web librarianship. 2009; 3(2):158-159.
Molanphy, Emily. A Review of METADATA. Zheng, Marcia Lei and Jian Qin. New York : Neal-Schumnan Publishers, 2008. 364 pp. $65.00 ISBN 978-1-55570-635-7 [Book review]. Journal of web librarianship. 2009; 3(3):297-298.

Other presentations

Morton-Owens, EG & Hanson, KL. "Trends at a glance: A management dashboard of library statistics" [paper]. Library Information Technology Association Forum, St. Louis, MO, October, 2011.

Graham, JM, Maher, S, Moore, D, & Morton-Owens, EG. (2011). Taking the Library to the Clinic: Building Mobile Services for a Medical Library. Accepted for The Reference Librarian.

Morton-Owens, EG & Moore, D. "Managing multiple sites in Drupal: Selecting the right tool for the job" [paper]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2011.

Morton-Owens, EG. "Content Farms" [Top Tech Trends panel presentation]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2011.

McCrillis A, Dement F, Graham JM, Hanson KL, Maher S, McGowan R, Yacobucci K, Morton-Owens EG. "Librarians' involvement in a course management tool and an evolving instructional design role" [paper]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 2011.

Morton-Owens, EG. “Crowdsourcing: Harnessing the Power and Wisdom of Users.” MLA News 2011 February; 51(2).

Morton-Owens, EG. “Editorial and Technological Workflow Tools for a Busy Website” [paper]. Library Information Technology Association Forum, Atlanta, GA, October 2010.

Molanphy, EO. Beautiful Architecture [book review]. Journal of Web Librarianship 2010; 4(2/3).

Molanphy, EO. “Internet Resources: Disaster Preparedness and Response.” MLA News 2010 September; 50(8).

Maher, S, Graham, JM, Moore, D, and Molanphy, EO. “Taking the library to the clinic: agile development of a mobile site using Drupal at a medical library.” Handheld Librarian 3, online, July 2010.

Molanphy, EO, Hanson, K, and Walls, I. “Implementing open-source for three core library functions: A timeline of challenges and solutions” [paper]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Washington, DC, May 2010.

Molanphy, EO, and Evjy, C. “Pursuing unity: Combining five library websites into one” [poster session]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Washington, DC, May 2010.

Graham, JM, Cuddy, C, Karell, M, Lamb, I, Molanphy, EO and Vieira, D. “Getting users all a-Twitter: Using Twitter to generate positive buzz in a health sciences environment” [poster session]. Three by the Sea Conference, Atlantic City, NJ, October 2009.

Maher, S, English, K, Graham, JM, Hanson, K, McCrillis, A, McGowan, R, et al. “Using a team approach to support faculty curriculum development” [poster session]. Three by the Sea Conference, Atlantic City, NJ, October 2009.

Cuddy, C, Brewer, K, Figueroa, M, McCrillis, A, McGowan, R, Molanphy, EO, et al. “Disaster Preparedness Informationist: A team approach” [poster session]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Honolulu, HI, May 2009.

Molanphy, EO, Cuddy, C. “Symbolizing the library’s value: Designing a logo for an academic medical library” [poster session]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Honolulu, HI, May 2009.

Molanphy EO, Nachbar MS. “Pinpointing the answer: Simple faceted classification in Delicious” [poster session]. ACRL/NY Symposium, New York City, December 2008.

Molanphy, EO. “Using Delicious to select teaching materials collaboratively” [lightning talk]. LITA National Forum, Cincinnati, OH, October 2008.

Molanphy, EO. “Tables of contents in RSS” [lightning talk]. Code4lib NYC, New York City, September 2008.

Molanphy, EO, Kennedy, M. “Blogging at MLA ’08: Thoughts from Two Official Bloggers.” MLA News 2008 August: 408:13.

Molanphy EO, Kealey S. “Bridging the gap in the office: Intra-office instant messaging” [poster session]. Medical Library Association National Conference, Chicago, IL, May 2008.

Molanphy, EO. “Responsible Disposal and Reuse of Electronic Equipment.” MLA News 2008 May; 406:21.

Molanphy, EO. “First steps with a CMS” [lightning talk]. Metro Library Council Library 2.0 special interest group, New York City, March 2008.